Updated: February 7, 2012
By Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet...
Updated: April 17, 2012
Today, CCR and other civil rights groups submitted a letter to University of California (UC) President Mark Yudof, pressing him to consider the chilling effect of efforts to target Arab, Muslim and...
Updated: December 5, 2012
Washington, November 1, 2012 – This morning CCR scored a major victory in our long running effort to hold private military contractors responsible for their role in the torture and war crimes...
Updated: December 20, 2012
Closing Remarks at Protest by Leili Kashani, Advocacy Program Manager, Center for Constitutional Rights Almost exactly four months ago today, a young Yemeni man cruelly detained for more than ten...
Updated: January 16, 2013
February 5, 2013, New York, NY - Yesterday, the Center for Consititutional Rights sent a letter to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould commending her for her principled stand for academic freedom...
Updated: February 7, 2013
Brooklyn College's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a press conference on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, to address ongoing efforts to shut down a student-organized event on the growing...
Updated: February 7, 2013
February 11, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to eight New York City Council Members, in response to their threat to...
Updated: February 11, 2013
February 13, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent a letter to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova urging her to take concrete action to stop Israel's continued destruction...
Updated: February 13, 2013
February 14, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry calling on the United States...
Updated: February 14, 2013
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